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What is cybersecurity?

Cybersecurity is the practice of defending computers, servers, electronic systems, mobile devices, networks, and data from malicious attacks.
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Why is Cybersecurity Important?

The main goal of cybersecurity initiatives is to prevent the loss and corruption of any form of data.This includes private information, personally identifiable information (PII), protected health information (PHI), sensitive data, data pertaining to intellectual property, and information systems utilized by the public and private sectors.  If your business does not have a cybersecurity program in place, it will be an easy target for cybercriminals and will have no chance of successfully defending itself against data breach attempts.

More than just the necessary personal information is at danger when a computer is breached.  Additionally, it may damage their relationships with their clients and seriously jeopardize their legal standing. As new technologies are created and deployed, such as internet-connected home security systems and self-driving cars, the hazards related to cybercrime will only rise.

According to predictions made by Gartner Inc., global spending on security will climb by 8% in only one year to $170 billion in 2022.

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Cyber Security Defined

Definition of the term “cyber security“: the measures that are taken to protect against crimes that include the internet, particularly those that involve illegal access to computer systems and data that are connected to the internet.

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How Does Cybersecurity Work?

The process of protecting hardware, software, and data that are connected to the internet from risks posed by cybercriminals is referred to as cybersecurity. This strategy is used by individuals and businesses to prevent unauthorized people from entering data centers and other digital systems.

A efficient security plan can provide an organization or user with an effective defense against cyberattacks that try to sneak into their systems and sensitive data in order to either change, delete, destroy, or extort money from them. Cybersecurity is also crucial because it can thwart assaults that seek to render a system or device inoperable or unusable by making it difficult to operate.
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What is Cybersecurity About?

Cybercriminals launch a wide variety of assaults, both against businesses and individuals, in an effort to compromise the data’s security, integrity, and availability.

The purpose of intrusions into private spaces is to get sensitive information such as personally identifiable information (PII).


Attacks against a person’s integrity are designed to disrupt their job and damage their reputation.

Attacks against availability seek to achieve their objective of preventing consumers from accessing data.

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Types of Cybersecurity

Network Security

Network security protects your network and data from hacks, attacks, and other threats. This is a comprehensive and all-inclusive term that covers hardware and software solutions as well as procedures, rules, and configurations relating to network use, accessibility, and overall threat protection.

Application Security

The process of application security involves the development, addition, and testing of security features within applications. To protect against potential threats such as unauthorized access and protect against these threats through the development, addition, and testing of security within applications.

Critical Infrastructure

Protecting the computer systems, networks, and other assets upon which national security, economic well-being, and/or public safety depend. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a cybersecurity framework to assist, while the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) offers assistance.

Information Security

Protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, alteration, or destruction is what is meant by the phrase "information security." This is done in order to ensure that the information's integrity, confidentiality, and availability are maintained.

Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery is the process of making sure that your business can keep running with as few interruptions and losses as possible if something bad happens. Cybersecurity disaster recovery focuses on disasters like distributed denial-of-service attacks or data breaches that are directly caused by cyber threats.

Cloud Security

Cloud security is a set of practices and tools that help businesses deal with security threats from both inside and outside the company. Organizations need cloud security as they carry out their digital transformation plans and add cloud-based tools and services to their infrastructure through process and development.

Internet of Things

Protecting, identifying, and monitoring risks while helping fix vulnerabilities from a variety of devices that can pose security risks to your business are "security in IoT." This refers to the process of protecting Internet-connected devices and the networks to which they are connected from potential dangers and breaches.

Storage Security

A part of security that focuses on protecting data storage systems and ecosystems, as well as the data that is stored on them. Storage security is the combination of storage, networking, and security disciplines, technologies, and methods to protect and secure digital assets.

Mobile Security

Mobile security is the strategy, infrastructure, and software that users use to protect any device they take with them, like smartphones, tablets, and laptops.

Cybersecurity for mobile devices means protecting the data on the device as well as the endpoints and networking equipment that the device is connected to.

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Types of Cyber Threats

Malware

The term "malware" is used to describe a wide variety of malicious software designed to disrupt, damage, or steal information from a computer system, online service, or network.

Phishing

Phishing is a type of social engineering in which an attacker sends a fake message to try to get information or install malicious software like ransomware on the victim's computer.

Ransomware

A type of malware called ransom malware, sometimes known as ransomware, blocks users from accessing their personal or system files and demands a ransom payment in exchange for access.

Insider Threats

Insider threats occur from employees, former employees, contractors, or business partners who know an organization's security processes, data, and computer systems.

Man In Middle

A man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack is a general term for when a perpetrator inserts himself into a conversation between a user and an application, either to listen in on the conversation or to pretend to be one of the participants and create the impression that normal information exchange is taking place.

DDOS Attacks

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to stop normal traffic on a server, service, or network by flooding it with so much Internet traffic that it or the infrastructure around it can't handle it.

Social Engineering

Social engineering targets individuals to gain passwords, bank information, or access to their computers to install malicious software that gives them access to passwords, bank information, and control over their machines.

Persistent

An assault campaign in which an intruder, or team of invaders, establishes an unlawful, long-term presence on a network in order to harvest extremely sensitive data is referred to as an advanced persistent threat (APT) in general.

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